NJ Transit runs extra train to make room for paradegoers

PORT JERVIS — NJ Transit will operate an extra train on the Port Jervis line Thursday to accommodate people going to Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.

Judy Rife

PORT JERVIS — NJ Transit will operate an extra train on the Port Jervis line Thursday to accommodate people going to Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.

The train will leave Port Jervis at 6:22 a.m. and arrive in Secaucus, N.J., at 8:18, where riders transfer to reach Pennsylvania Station. The train, which makes local stops to Suffern, leaves Harriman at 7:24.

For the return trip, riders will board at 12:07 p.m. at Penn and transfer again at Secaucus. The outbound train will arrive in Harriman at 1:16 and in Port Jervis at 2:18.

Other train and bus schedules have also been altered for the holiday weekend, starting with the traditional “early getaway” service on Wednesday and including modified service on Friday when many people are off from work.

Metro-North, for example, will operate 20 extra getaway trains from Grand Central Wednesday, and Short Line will operate what it calls “a holiday schedule with additions” Friday.

Complete schedules are posted at shortlinebus.com, mta.info and njtransit.com.